Feb 10/11 - Chinese New Year day 1 and 2 : eat a lot!
Feb 12 - Mardi Gras : eat even more.
Feb 13 - Ash Wednesday : no eat.
Feb 14 - Valentine's day : no date, eat to drown sorrows.
Feb 15 - Hotpot dinner at Peter's place : eat some (i envisage competition getting at the food)
I can't believe Ash Wednesday falls on day 3 of CNY - is the Archbishop going to announce a delay to the fasting day?
Just in case there's no dispensation with Ash Wednesday fasting, I will take Mardi Gras very seriously.
When people hear Mardi Gras they think wild parades, but Mardi Gras simply means Fat Tuesday, aka eat a lot on Tuesday because Wednesday you fast. It has its origins with the catholic calendar.
Ash Wednesday traditionally is a day of fast and abstinence as it marks the beginning of Lent - 40 days of preparation leading up Holy Week of Good Friday & Easter.
Again the church remembers and celebrates the great salvific life and death of Christ.
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